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Download full textBronson, Martha B. – 1991
A collaborative day care and public school kindergarten intervention program for children in several public housing projects in Boston was evaluated by means of the Bronson Social and Task Skill Profile, a classroom observation instrument. This instrument has categories that measure behaviors related to competence in carrying out social…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Day Care
Education Writers Association, Washington, DC. – 1989
This document is a set of two volumes that contain prize-winning newspaper articles and summaries of radio and television shows selected as part of the Media Resource Project on Literacy. Items in the 1988-89 book include the following: "Why Daddy Can't Read" (Sally L. Gilman); "The Triumph of Jimmy Sanchez" (Sandra Macias); "Illiteracy:…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Business Responsibility, Dropout Research
Center for Employment Training, San Jose, CA. – 1989
This document summarizes the 1989 performance of the Center for Employment Training (CET) a nonprofit corporation with training centers located throughout the West. The document consists of a variety of reports and "focus" pieces examining labor market changes and CET's adjustments in its operations. The executive director's report…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans
Thompson, Josephine T. – 1991
An intervention program was implemented to reduce absences, stimulate responsibility for assignments, and increase participation in extracurricular activities among disengaged ninth-grade students (N=18). Older students served as role models and peer mentors as they sought to establish that freshmen could control their own success or failure in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Counselor Training, Dropout Prevention
Beyond Training: A Field Test of the American Society for Training & Development's Workplace Basics.
Foucar-Szocki, Diane L. – 1992
In 1991, a project studied implementation of the American Society for Training and Development's Workplace Basics model. Field testing was conducted in two Virginia industries: Corning Incorporated in Waynesboro and American Safety Razor (ASR) in Verona. Corning had fewer than 100 employees and an 85 percent female work force; it had shifted from…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Career Development, Case Studies
Kester, Donald L. – 1990
An external evaluation of the Torrance (California) Unified School District's transitional bilingual education program for limited-English-speaking Chinese, Japanese, and Korean middle school students is reported. The project focused on four areas including: instruction; staff development, materials, and parent involvement and education. An…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Chinese, Elementary Secondary Education
Baidya, Bhuchandra P. R.; Chaudhari, Gayatri – 1991
An evaluative study was conducted of the Training for Rural Gainful Activities (TRUGA) project and methodology in Nepal regarding women's participation and benefits. The study analyzed TRUGA as a project and as a training methodology, assessed the effects of TRUGA activities on women, and evaluated project investment in and benefits to women.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Stover, Deborah A. – 1990
"Look into the Future" is a program created by a Job Training Partnership Act project and 9to5, Working Women Education Fund, to address the training and retraining needs of office workers in light of the advances in computer and communications systems. This guide describes the model project and suggests steps other organizations can…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Curriculum Development, Dislocated Workers
Puhl, Carol A. – 1989
A South African project investigated effective methods of English language instruction for educationally disadvantaged black gold mine workers. Four instructors taught eight 3-week intensive classes, four by traditional language teaching methods and four by methods used at the Institute for Language Teaching of the University of Stellenbosch…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Blacks, Cognitive Development, Educationally Disadvantaged
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Quincy. – 1990
A conscious strategy for educational reform has guided the 1990 efforts of the Boston/Chelsea (Massachusetts) Urban Team. Elements of the strategy include the following: (1) acknowledging that the individual school, not the state or federal program, is the fundamental unit of education; (2) breaking down the compartmentalization of bilingual,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
O'Toole, Brian – 1990
The document, in both English and French, describes a 2-year project in Guyana based on the principle of community-based rehabilitation (CBR), which stresses training local community residents as supervisors to provide training of rehabilitation workers and direct services to children with disabilities living in rural areas. The program provided…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1990
A hearing was held to discuss the future of Project Head Start. Witnesses from corporations offered testimony supporting the strengthening of early childhood education, particularly Head Start, and urging the federal government to give increased attention to early childhood education. Subsequent testimony from experts, program directors, and…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education
Quinn, Lois M.; And Others – 1991
The Wisconsin "Learnfare" policy requires that teenagers receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) attend school regularly until they have completed high school. The population of teen parents and dependent teens receiving AFDC from September 1988 through December 1989 included 22,241 males and 30,995 females. About half…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance, Compliance (Legal), Compulsory Education
Matz, William A. – 1990
This report describes the summer occupational/vocational programs held in each of three vocational school districts and it compiles activities in the regular school districts in Delaware for fiscal year 1991. The three vocational-technical school district programs profiled are those of Kent County, Sussex County, and New Castle County. For each…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Community Programs
Crowley, William A. – 1991
An "applied folklore" study investigated the value of certain aspects of folklore theory in an effort to upgrade teaching effectiveness. A case study approach was used to determine if the concept of labeling perspective, as adapted and advanced by folklorist Patrick B. Mullen (1988), could provide useful insights when applied to local…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior Standards, Case Studies, Educational Research
